Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

The home, located on the West Village campus of the University of California, Davis, is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. Honda Smart Home is expected to generate a surplus of 2.6 Photo by Dorian Toy.

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Teslarati

JULY 16, 2022

Tesla’s virtual power plant (VPP) beta with Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) now has 1,763 homes in the fleet so far. In his tweet, Sawyer included a screenshot provided by Rick Davis, If you want to follow the @TeslaSolar virtual power plant beta growth in real time, it's being tracked here: [link] [link].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Shell, together with ITM Power, plans to install a 10MW electrolyzer to produce hydrogen at the Wesseling refinery site within the Rheinland Refinery Complex. —Brian Davis, Vice President of Integrated Energy Solutions at Shell. Today, the refinery uses approximately 180,000 tons of hydrogen per year in its various plants.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2011

The average emissions for an electric vehicle in the UK are 75 gCO 2 /km, when CO 2 emissions at the power station are taken into account, according to an analysis by Gary Davis, Operations Director and chief greenhouse gas (GHG) analyst at Edinburgh-based carbon accounting firm Ecometrica. see figure below). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

—Davis Hackenberg, NASA AAM mission integration manager. NASA engineers will deploy their Mobile Acoustics Facility and more than 50 pressure ground-plate microphones in a grid array that allows for multi-directional measurement of the Joby aircraft’s sound emissions. Each inverter is wired to a separate battery pack.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s the first time in 80 years that a renewable electricity source has accounted for over half of annual capacity additions to the grid. While economic challenges are beginning to impact the solar and storage industry, solar is still expected to be the largest source of generating capacity on the US grid by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

—Amy Davis, Vice President and President of New Power at Cummins. Last year, Sinopec set the vision of becoming the world’s leading clean energy chemical company and positioned the entire hydrogen industry chain as the core business for its new power strategy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2009

The study will be published in the April 2010 issue of the Journal of Power Sources , and is currently available online. It also explores sensitivities of electricity supply and emissions to hydro-power availability, timing of electricity demand (including vehicle recharging), and demand location within the state. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2015

One of these, the Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS), aims to enhance or increase the electric power density available in tightly constrained mobile environments by changing the design. POETS uses system level analysis tools to identify barriers to increased power density.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

million each to advance thermal energy storage technologies that will help cut costs and improve the efficiency of thermal energy storage, leading to increased capacity and operational benefits for concentrated solar power plants. Biomethane Hydrogen Power Generation Solar' Halotechnics and UCLA: $1.5 Itron, Inc.: $1

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

grid only). the PHEV design with the lowest battery power and energy requirements. Using the results of the design study (and using only the more aggressive US06 cycle) the team assessed the resulting battery requirements for power, energy, longevity, cost and safety. CD operation. Cross-over SUV. Mid-size car. Mid-size car.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Over the past few years, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), University of California at Davis (UC Davis) and University of Stavanger in Norway have developed a new protocol, called BChain, which makes blockchain even more robust. The main difference between the two is who can participate.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

While these PHEV/EV batteries degraded to 70%-80% of their original power/capacity are insufficient for automotive use, these aged batteries may still be useful and could be reused in other applications. The cost of Li-ion batteries currently affects the affordability of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (PHEV/EV) for consumers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

The grant was awarded by the Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center, a division of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. Flux Power of Vista, Calif.; Partnering with CCSE in the one-year study are San Diego Gas and Electric; AeroVironment Inc. of Monrovia, Calif.; —Mike Ferry.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Highways & Regional Routes: The new Cycle 2 investments will continue to build out a highway network of DCFC stations featuring charging power up to 350 kilowatts which can recharge a vehicle at up to 20 miles of range per minute.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Highways & Regional Routes: The new Cycle 2 investments announced today will continue to build out a highway network of DCFC stations featuring charging power up to 350 kilowatts which can refuel a vehicle at up to 20 miles of range per minute. TDI diesel vehicles in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

EVgo has integrated second-life BMW i3 batteries to store energy from the grid generated during peak solar hours and later use that stored energy to fast-charge EVgo customers during periods of high demand. —Austin Brown, Executive Director of the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Exascale refers to high-performance computing systems capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second, or a factor of 50 to 100 times faster than the nation’s most powerful supercomputers in use today. Optimizing Stochastic Grid Dynamics at Exascale, Henry Huang (PNNL) with ANL, NREL.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Department of Energy is working with industry, universities, national laboratories, and other groups to develop technologies capable of harnessing these resources to generate environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive power. Shift Power Solutions, Inc. DOE Funding: $240,000. Total Project Value: $300,000. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Whilst the report is not intended to dampen enthusiasm for electric vehicles, their introduction should not be viewed as a panacea; significant changes to the way we produce and tax power are needed before we will reap any benefits.&#. National Grid. CO2 emissions. Popularity.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

The car was powered by thousands of small lithium batteries,” Pohorsky explained. More recently, Gage became the CEO of EVGrid , working on Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech. He had all these charts and graphs showing the power going into the motor. Tesla licensed the technology.” Otmar was one of our first speakers,” said Pohorsky. “He

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are identifying battery second use (B2U) strategies capable of offsetting vehicle expenses while improving utility grid stability. The tests have confirmed that B2U systems can successfully accomplish both goals.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

ARB should enact policies to accelerate the “greening” of California’s electrical transmission grids. We are especially concerned about the ability of the electric power sector to achieve “zero-carbon” electricity. Earlier post.). —Rizzoni and Marano. 10 years for hybrids to reach only 4% of the new vehicle market in California.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

I t's fair to say that the plug in hybrid ( watch video ) was born in California at UC Davis through the vision and tenacity of Andy Frank; but now, as the idea and the technology begins to mature and spread, another State and another University is joining the effort: Here's the story from Channel Nine news : N.C. Duke Energy Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Marrone Bio Innovations (Davis, California). Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Electrochaea GmbH (Munich, Germany). Utilidata, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Catherine JJ DeMauro. Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. At present, PHEV technology alone is equipped to improve the current electric grid. by Professor Andrew Alfonso Frank.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

However, the power relationships have shifted somewhat. The National Hydrogen Association (members include Chevron, GM, Shell, Toyota, Honda, CARB and UC Davis), the California Hydrogen Business Council, and the US Fuel Cell Council are not happy with Chu’s cuts. In the past industry ultimately called the shots. Such as the $1.1

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Neil Auerbach is a Managing Partner at Hudson Clean Energy Partners which is a global private equity firm investing in renewable power, alternative fuels, energy efficiency and storage. Within the US electric power sector the biggest question was whether the Production Tax Credits (PTC) were going to be extended beyond 2008.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2010

A study by Jonn Axsen and Ken Kurani from the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, estimates electricity and gasoline use under three recharging scenarios. By using expected fuel prices to value PHEVs, all three previous analyses ignore the flexibility that PHEV owners have regarding whether to charge their vehicles from the grid.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 20, 2006

Four years ago, the professor at the University of California at Davis and a team of engineering students created a plug-in vehicle. The university students reversed the roles by combining a more powerful electric motor that went 50 miles without using any gasoline. A typical hybrid has a big gasoline engine and a tiny electric motor.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

And for this ecosystem to be robust, there must be commonality, especially when owners are plugging into the electrical grid. makes a cool portable electronics hand charger that doesnt use batteries or solar power so it can work anywhere. Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader. Got a Question? A Comment? "In Enter Yours Today!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A PHEV can provide power to an entire home in the case of an outage; A fleet of PHEVs could power critical systems during emergencies. Scientist have confirmed that unlike gasoline cars, plug-ins will get cleaner as they get older -- because our power grid is getting cleaner. The GREET 1.6

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Despite the recent progress, a number of myths around the use, power efficiency and cost of fuel cells still exist. A hydrogen-powered version of Hyundai’s Tucson sport utility vehicle has already appeared in southern California showrooms. Of course, this also has the merit of producing so-called “green hydrogen”.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Lithium ion batteries are ubiquitous in mobile devices, increasingly used in transportation, and promising candidates for renewable energy integration into the electrical grid, provided the degradation of electrochemical performance upon use can be understood, mitigated, and ideally eliminated. —Ulvestad et al. Resources.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. And local electrical grids may need reinforcement. Battery-powered motors are more efficient than gasoline engines.

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